Thnx K-Dog. I knew you would let me know. :) UI understand the total lack of confidence in humankind implementing anything that would improve his lot. History lets us know how man as taken the ignorant road, the profitable road, to improvement. We can't count on the universities to let policy makers and manufacturers put into the public sphere any sustainable, models. Over and over man has screwed the pooch. I really know what a pipe dream I entertain with dreaming of fantastic ideas put into practice so our societies will function without being predominantly neurotic. Taken that,

  When you have spent most of your life in a monastery, living off of hand me downs, and not having the luxuries of choice you learn how to entertain yourself. In that realm there is a dreamer. A musician, and bard. A maker of fantasy and mental flight. We create ne worlds, and think of things that would have maybe never been. When I play with ideas of AI, I play with some pretty heavy duty symbolism. We all can relate to this because of our love of good sci-fi, and people who think outside the conventional world. So , not to say that your pouring black paint all over a vision, would be somewhat appropriate. :) You can if you let yourself not only dream of ways of having AI itself arrange the stupid humans into a compliance. Probably by just suggesting over, and over, and over to do "X". and he will. So everything fixed by AI...it IS sci-fi.

Is it a waste of precious time/action. Maybe. Lecturing on how impossible it is to implement any real change is stating the obvious. Can we actually be fierce enough to pinpoint the ribs that need to be poked in order for anything to change. I usually have an "I don't know" approach to those type of issues. So, for now, as AI is exploding and humankind is imploding, no one is gonna get this puppy right. It is all a crap shoot. The thing that I find frustrating is the lack of flexibility that the average mind has. We would rather stay with a gas guzzler than a vehicle that will take you there for free. Go figure...but the reasons are oh so complex.

Telling the raw and truthful story is most important, and we need to listen. But, I will maintain that are future is too complex to predict, and if I think like that, there are many possibilities that can affect how it manifests.